January
Saturn V — Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center — tallest rocket ever flown
February
Hoover Dam
Nevada / Arizona — 726 feet tall, built 1931–1936
March
Three Gorges Dam — Flood Release
Yangtze River, China — world’s largest power station
April
Itaipu Dam — Spillway in Full Flood
Brazil / Paraguay border — once the world’s largest hydroelectric plant
May
Millau Viaduct
Aveyron, France — taller than the Eiffel Tower
June
Vehicle Assembly Building
Kennedy Space Center — so large it has its own weather inside
July
CERN — Large Hadron Collider
Geneva, Switzerland — the largest machine ever built
August
Bagger 293 — Bucket-Wheel Excavator
Germany — heaviest land vehicle ever built: 14,200 tons
September
Jack-Up Drilling Rig — North Sea
Self-elevating platform standing on the seabed in open ocean
October
VLCC Supertanker
Very Large Crude Carrier — longer than four city blocks
November
Grand Coulee Dam Powerhouse
Columbia River, Washington — largest U.S. power plant
December
Forth Bridge
Scotland — cantilever railway bridge, opened 1890, still in daily use